Júlio Biason

Software Architect

Phone

+55 51 98222 0669

julio.biason@gmail.com

Repositories

Github: http://github.com/jbiason
BitBucket: https://bitbucket.org/juliobiason

Profile

Working professionally since 1990 as a software developer, I’ve worked in various positions and with different team sizes; from a single developer and analyst to a member of a team of 15 people from 3 different companies working on the backend system of the largest Brazilian ISP.

Self-taught in different languages — I learnt BASIC by reading my MSX manual and Pascal by reading Turbo Pascal help system — I'm always trying to learn new things, either by following examples or by reading books about different languages and other development subjects, like clean code and agile methods.

Professionally, I’m always trying to expand my knowledge to different areas, systems and languages and the related processes.

I also organize three MeetUps in the Porto Alegre region: "PyTche" for Python devs; "Porto Alegre Clean Code" for discussing clean development methods and "Rust in POA" for Rust devs.

Work Experience

Azion Technologies

Jul 2017-Present
Software Engineer
- Maintaining apps in Django/Python.
- Maintaining services with ZeroRPC/RabbitMQ/Python.
- Maintaining Kafka consumers/producers in Python.
- Maitaining a stream processing pipeline with Storm/Python
- Designing and Developing a stream processing pipeline with Flink/Scala/Java.
CWI software

Sep 2012-Jul 2017
Software Engineer
- Maintaining mobile applications for local university, iOS/Objective-C.
- Designing and Developing a web framework with dynamic module loading, based on Flask (Python); interface designed with Bootstrap 2 and jQuery.
- Maintaining mobile application for a logistics company, iOS/Objective-C.
- Maintaining of apps for Django/Python.
- Designing and Developing embedded applications in C for routers and switches, using Tail-F ConfD and Enea Element; all development following Scrum methodologies.
Iplenix Sistemas de Internet

Feb 2010-Sep 2012
Software Developer
- Maintaining the company internal framework in PHP.
- Designing the next generation of the company website, PHP.
- Working on the redesign the company system interfaces, using HTML/CSS, jQuery, jQueryUI, jqPlot/Flot and Google Maps.
- Maintaining helper applications in Lua.
- Designing and Maintaining helper applications in Python.
TileFile/Storyz

Jan 2007-Oct 2009
Software Developer
- Maintaining the server for media sharing and social networking in Python, using the company internal framework, with user data stored, initially, in binary objects (Python Pickles) and changed later to use MySQL with master-master replication; development followed the TDD metholody.
- Designing and Maintaining a Symbian/UIQ client in C++.
- Designing and Maintaining an iPhone client in Objective-C.
- Member of the "Product Council", responsible for selecting new features.
Qualità Informática

Mar 2006-Oct 2006
Software Developer
- Designing and Maintaining a CGI in C++ to configure wireless routers, in Linux, using microhttp and Boa as servers; dynamic interface using HTML and pure Javascript; graphics using Flash.
- Techincal leader of the Configuration Control Commitee (CCC), responsible for approving changes in the company source(MPS/CMMI).
Canópus Informática Ltda.

Jun 2003-Jan 2006
Software Developer/Team Leader
- Working on the development of the backend of the Brazilian largest ISP support system in C for Linux and Apache, with data stored in an Oracle database, queries written manually. Integrating the results with pre-designed dynamic interface in HTML and JavaScript, using hidden iframes to emulate AJAX functionality.
- Designing and Maintaining of helper applications in Python.
- Sub-project team leader.
- Developing drivers for the “Elipse” HMI supervisor in C++ (MS Visual Studio), for the ModBus protocol.
DWS Informática

Mar 2002-May 2003
Software Engineer/Analyst
- Desinging, developing and maintaining inventory control, finances and invoice management in Clipper.
- Developing and maintaining inventory control, finances and invoice management in Delphi, using database MySQL.
- Sysadmin of MySQL, SMTP, POP and HTTP servers on Linux.
UNISINOS

Aug 200-Feb 2002
Scholarship Holder
- Working on the FAGNIS project, about knowledge extraction in neural networks; networks created with the SNNS app, exporting the result as C functions

Skills

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Programming Languages

C++

Clipper

Clojure

Delphi

Java

JavaScript

Lua

Objective-C

PHP

Python

Scala

Libraries and Frameworks

Django

Flink

Flask

Storm

Version Control

Git

Subversion

Databases

Kafka

SQL

MongoDB

WorkTime

Calculate the worked time and time remaining till completion of a whole day work.
Written in Clojure.
Managed to do the most basic operations.
Broke in a mid-refactor when changing companies (when the rules for work time changed.)

Mitter

Twitter Desktop Client.
Written in Python.
Designed to support multiple interfaces (currently, PyGTK and TTY/Console).
Designed to support multiple networks. (currently Twitter, Identica and Facebook were planned.)
Support ended when Twitter used OAuth in its APIs.

Sectoid

Blogging app.
Written in PHP.
No templating system.
Option to display pages in sections and subsections (hence the name).
Code lost when my personal HD and the server HD managed to crash almost simultaneously.

MMM - Move My Music

Rename files based on their MP3 tags.
Written in Python.
Read information directly from the ID3 tags inside MP3s and OGGs, renaming the files and moving to directories, if necessary (based on the renaming template).
Used three different ID3 tag-reading libraries, till a custom library had to be written due crashes with encodings.

TimeTracker

Application to track time spent in different projects.
Written in Python.
Based on TimeKeeper, a Windows application.
Console application.

GUP

Upload pictures to Web Gallery.
Written in Python.
Supports only Web Gallery 2.x or later.
Local cache for album information.

ConfigOpt

A small library to Python to manage configurations.
Written in Python, using OptParser and ConfigParser.
Used to have a single point for the application options; the options could be loaded from config files and be set in the command line at the same time.
Developed for Mitter, but designed to be a standalone library.